prehistory - Museum of Stone Tools

Archaeological Heritage in Danger from War: The Lower Palaeolithic of Ukraine

Our responsibilities Humans are the only creatures on the planet who can understand their past and consciously determine their global future. Although humans are primates, this does not mean we should return to our roots and behave like our closest relatives. Rather, we should apply our self-knowledge and not destroy the opportunity for us to…

The traditional country of the Widi People covers a quarter of a million hectares west of Mackay, Queensland. Widi country includes open sclerophyll woodlands typical for this part of Australia, and large parts of it are covered in silcrete cobbles—a valuable toolmaking stone for the ancestors of the Widi. The European colonisers discovered vast quantities…

Welcome to the Museum of Stone Tools! The Museum of Stone Tools is an outcome of the Covid 19 lockdown in Australia in 2020. With fieldwork plans stymied, I brainstormed how I could wait out the pandemic in a useful and engaged way. An obvious option was to do something meaningful with the University of…